*NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A PLOT TWIST*
I'll be honest with you, i only read this out of a sense of duty because i loved Takano's previous work, truly i couldn't give a fuck about the summary you can see here or elsewhere online. This manga isn't advertised about well, and i can't help but think that it only adds to its power of subversion.
It so cleverly guides you on the well-used narrative paths we've seen so much time that they pass us by frictionlessly, before doing a 180° no scope roundhouse-kick in the gums at the very last page of volume 1 and
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Jan 22, 2023
Pornographer
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Be not afraid of the title, this is a very accessible work as we follow a depressed loser with no ethics that fakes being straight for his job, and as BL enjoyers with a MAL account i think we can all relate to that.
Jokes aside, Maki Marikudo gives and dangerously accurate depictions of how untreated mental illness and low self-esteem issues can fuck up your life and actually turn you into the piece of shit you see in the mirror. I love me a problematic bisexual, i love me him finding a labradorish gym bro to balance him, but these 3 tomes will most of all ... 
Jan 20, 2023
Pochiyama at the Pharmacy
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It's a weird-ass little manga that'll take you at best a long bathroom-break to complete, what do you even want me to sell you ? I spent more time writing this review than reading it ffs
The premise is intriguing and it ends up being actually pretty funny, you really feel like the author drew their lil thing for their own fun and without thinking much of it, and to me it's the secret ingredient to its inimitable, refreshing and lighthearted taste. I was attached to the characters after two pages and i audibly scoffed on several occasions, which is more than some well-known gag mangas ... 
Jun 17, 2022
Boys Run the Riot
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Overall, i don't think Boys Run the Riot was a good manga. The plot points revolving around fashion were clunky and not engaging at all, making a big part of its reading kind of a drag, but in the end i found it to be only a detail, because Boys Run the Riot is an extremely sincere manga.
Its representation of both the transmasculine and the bad student/school outcast experience is not only realistic, but very precise, sensible, and thus touching. Felt like an insider's view, really. I've heard myself as a teen say and think what those teen dude think and say. It wasn't ... |
